Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blasted President Biden’s move to send 1,500 troops to the southern border, saying the president is sending soldiers to fill out paperwork and not enough to realistically secure the border.
The Republican governor appeared on “Fox News Sunday” to address the chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border ahead of expiring pandemic-era Title 42 policies, which have allowed U.S. officials to turn away tens of thousands of migrants crossing the southern border.
“Only when Biden came in and eliminated all those [Trump-era] policies and put out a welcome mat to the entire world that the border is now open, that we suddenly have the chaos that’s caused solely by policies put into place by Joe Biden,” Abbott said.
The governor slammed Biden’s decision to move troops as “a day late and tens of thousands of soldiers too few.”
Title 42 is set to expire on May 11.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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